A Handbook for New Academic Administrators

by Roderic B. Park

Professor Park offers a groundbreaking tutorial on how young facultymembers can succeed in implementing visions for administrativeimprovement in the university, an institution traditionally resistantto change. Most recent Ph.D. recipients have never taken a course inleadership, administration, or management, so to succeed as agents ofchange they must learn new skills. Fortunately, faculty members are bytheir very nature quick learners, and, given a few basic principles,are likely to succeed. This unique volume uses actual administrativecase studies to cover the constituencies aspiring administrators willencounter: faculty members, students, alumni, temporary faculty,staff, and governing boards. While technology and economiccircumstances change often, the deepest beliefs, fears, andfundamental behaviors of these university personnel remain much thesame today as they were one hundred years ago.